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Ch 22: Gauss' Law
Young & Freedman Calc - University Physics 15th Edition
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Capitolo 22, Problema 24b

Charge qq is distributed uniformly throughout the volume of an insulating sphere of radius R=4.00R = 4.00 cm. At a distance of r=8.00r = 8.00 cm from the center of the sphere, the electric field due to the charge distribution has magnitude E=940E = 940 N/C. What is the electric field at a distance of 2.002.00 cm from the sphere's center?

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Understand that the problem involves a uniformly charged insulating sphere, which means we can use Gauss's Law to find the electric field at different distances from the center.
Recall Gauss's Law: \( \Phi_E = \frac{Q_{enc}}{\varepsilon_0} \), where \( \Phi_E \) is the electric flux, \( Q_{enc} \) is the enclosed charge, and \( \varepsilon_0 \) is the permittivity of free space.
For a point inside the sphere (at 2.00 cm from the center), the enclosed charge \( Q_{enc} \) is proportional to the volume of the sphere up to that radius. Use the formula \( Q_{enc} = \frac{q}{V_{total}} \times V_{enc} \), where \( V_{total} \) is the total volume of the sphere and \( V_{enc} \) is the volume enclosed by the radius 2.00 cm.
Calculate the volume of the sphere using \( V = \frac{4}{3} \pi R^3 \) and the volume enclosed by the radius 2.00 cm using \( V_{enc} = \frac{4}{3} \pi r^3 \).
Apply Gauss's Law to find the electric field \( E \) at 2.00 cm: \( E = \frac{Q_{enc}}{4\pi \varepsilon_0 r^2} \), where \( r \) is the distance from the center (2.00 cm in this case).

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